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Claims (215)

E. H. DeLoach spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“This memorandum refers to highlyconfidential coverage of Martin Luther Kingand Bayard liustin…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.518

William C. Sullivan proposed Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“the document that recommended the discrediting of Dr King and the appointing of a new leader which was in January of 1964 which was the recommendation from Mr Sullivan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.69

FBI carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Then there was no justification for the FBI to interfere Mr ADAMSTo discredit him…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.76

Coretta Scott King married Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Coretta King his wife…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.76

Robert F. Kennedy approved Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Attorney General Kennedy approved the actual surveillance that was instituted on Dr King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.79

Time-Life appointed Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The memo is dated January 8 1964 and was written a week following the time that King was named man of the year by Time Magazine…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.87

J. Edgar Hoover targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“We have got to remove King from his pedestal... so as to overthrow Dr King and be in the position to assume the role of leadership of the Negro people when King has been completely discredited…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.88

FBI spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Dr King's case is indeed a classic example utilizing all of the various techniques of the Bureau both in intelligence gathering and action against an individual in order to discredit him or embarrass him and indeed destroy him…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.95

U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“We witnessed intelligence functions at their admitted worst and a few of the so-called Counterintelligence Programs against Dr Martin Luther King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.118

J. Edgar Hoover ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“at the direction of Mr Hoover Mr DeLoach and Mr Sullivan tried to contact Dr King to set him straight…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.138

Mr. DeLoach met_with Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“tried to contact Dr King to set him straight…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.138

Jake Sullivan met_with Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“tried to contact Dr King to set him straight…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.138

J. Edgar Hoover relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Mr Hoover strongly challenged this allegation…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.139

U.S. Department of Justice approved Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The wiretaps on Martin Luther King were ,all approved by the Attorney General…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.158

Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“did Robert Kennedy at some point authorize placing a tap upon the home phone of I)r King upon the office of the SCLC in Atlanta and upon the office of the SCLC in New York…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.177

Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“The AG said this did not concern him at all that in view of the possible Communist influence in the racial situa tion he thought it advisable to have as complete coverage as possible…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.178

Martin Luther King Jr. operated_in Albany, Georgia documented document

“Dr King in Albany Ga. while there was considerable rape strife and violence going on at that particular time…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.183

J. Edgar Hoover met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“There was a meeting in Mr Hoover's office which was attended by Reverend Abernathy Congressman Young one other individual and Dr King Mr Hoover and myself…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.183

Andrew Young met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“There was a meeting in Mr Hoover's office which was attended by Reverend Abernathy Congressman Young one other individual and Dr King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.183

Ralph Abernathy met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“There was a meeting in Mr Hoover's office which was attended by Reverend Abernathy Congressman Young one other individual and Dr King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.183

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with J. Edgar Hoover documented document

“Dr King left Mr Hoover's officeafter approximately 1 hour and 17 minutes and issued a press release more or less concerning the peaceful meeting between I)r King and Mr Hoover…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.184

Martin Luther King Jr. worked_for Federal Bureau of Investigation reported document

“Dr King on the other hand told Mr Hoover that he would attempt to cooperate with the FBI in civil rights investigations in the future…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.184

John Evans met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“you did confer with the Attorney General in July of 1963 with regard to some wiretaps and technical surveillance of Martin Luther King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.193

Burke Marshall spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“During that time he told you that Mr Burke Marshall was concerned about some of the activities of Martin Luther King with regard to possible Communist influence of the civil rights movement…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.194

Robert F. Kennedy spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“But at any rate in July of 1963 the Attorney General asked you or asked the Bureau to engage in a technical surveillance of Dr King did he not…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.194

Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Some such as the extent of the FBI's attempt to intimidate to harass and to discredit Dr Martin Luther King have shocked and appalled me…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.208

Martin Luther King Jr. operated_in United States documented document

“Dr King emerged as the most influential Civil Rights leader in this country at a crucial time in our history…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.218

Kennedy Administration supported Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“There is no doubt that the Kennedy administration (both the President and the Attorney General) sympathized with and supported Dr King's dramatic efforts to demonstrate the extent of discrimination in this country and to right those wrongs…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.218

J. Edgar Hoover spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“It is my impression that at this time the Bureau asked for authorization to tap the phones of Dr King and that Mr Kennedy turned that request down…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.219

J. Edgar Hoover relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“I knew too that Mr Hoover was extremely sensitive to any criticism whatsoever and that he deeply and personally resented public criticism by civil rights leaders and especially that made by Dr King.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.226

Ramsey Clark relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“I was Attorney General when I)r King was murdered…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.230

Andrew Young relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“people who worked with him like Congressman Andy Young…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.230

Nicholas Katzenbach met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Indeed we talked to him often about…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.238

Nicholas Katzenbach worked_for Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“I do have a recollection of the wiretap that I took off from Dr King's home phone…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.251

Gerald Ford proposed Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“do you agree with the statement made by President Ford that those responsible for harassing and trying to destroy Dr King should be brought to justice…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.311

Martin Luther King Jr. spied_on FBI documented document

“The way Martin Luther King was hounded and harassed is a disgrace to every American…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.338

Edward Levi reviewed Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“I am saying that I was sufficiently disturbed about it so that I am having them all reviewed…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.340

Martin Luther King Jr. linked_to COINTELPRO documented document

“Senator HART of Michigan So that Martin Luther King who would have known about a lot of things that were going on and a lot of people whose names will never surface in connection with this committee who have had similar well not similar but…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.353

Special Squad spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Throughour highlyconfidentialcoverageofMarlinLutherICing1…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.505

Special Squad spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“I instituted coverages similar to that on King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.506

Martin Luther King Jr. moved_to Atlantic City documented document

“Jenkins was advised that Martin Luther King had prevailed upon [someone] to come to Atlantic City that day…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.507

FBI carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“the disclosures of illegal activities on the part of FBI COINTELPRO the FBI's harassment of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.22

FBI spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The FBI considered one of Dr Martin Luther King's advisors to be such an 'agent of influence.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.184

FBI spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“A prominent civil rights leader and advisor to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was investigated on the suspicion that he might be a Communist "sympathizer…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.23

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“From "late 1963 until his death in 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was the target of an intensive campaign by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to "neutralize him as an effective civil rights leader…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.27

Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The program to destroy Dr King as the leader of the civil rights movement included efforts to discredit him with Executive branch officials Congressional leaders foreign heads of state American ambassadors churches universities and the pres…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.27

Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The FBI mailed Dr King a tape recording made from microphones hidden in his hotel rooms which one agent testified was an attempt to destroy Dr King's marriage…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.27

CIA spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“For approximately 20 years the CIA carried out a program of indiscriminately opening citizens first class mail…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.28

NSA spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“From 1947 until May 1975 NSA received from international cable companies millions of cables which had been sent by American citizens in the reasonable expectation that they would be kept private.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.28

Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Kennedy's approval of FBI requests for wire taps on I)r Martin Luther King and several of his associates are discussed in greater detail elsewhere in the Committee's report.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.79

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“According to FBI records Katzenbach also initialed three memoranda informing him of microphone surveillances of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.121

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary documented document

“surveillance of King at his then-current address in Atlanta Georgia…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.134

Martin Luther King Jr. headed Southern Christian Leadership Conference documented document

“Martin Luther King Jr. head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.134

Nicholas Katzenbach spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“According to Bureau memoranda apparently initialled by Attorney General Katzenbach Katzenbach received after the fact notification in 1965 that three bugs had been planted in Dr King's hotel rooms.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.174

Martin Luther King Jr. headed Southern Christian Leadership Council documented document

“Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Council…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.183

Tom C. Clark spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Similarly, while the FBI may properly have been concerned with the activities of certain advisors to Dr King the direct wiretapping of Dr King shows that the "domestic security" standard could be stretched to unjustified lengths…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.221

Herbert Brownell spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The microphone surveillances of Congressman Cooley and Dr King under the "national interest" standard established by Attorney General Brownell in 1954 also reveal the relative ease with which electronic bugging devices could be used against…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.221

FBI carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The sustained use of such tactics by the FBI in an attempt to destroy Dr Martin Luther King Jr. violated the law and fundamental human decency…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.227

Federal Bureau of Investigation covered_up Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“the Bureau's campaign against Dr King continued…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.237

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with J. Edgar Hoover documented document

“Dr King and Hoovermet the following day the meeting was described as "amicable.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.237

Martin Luther King Jr. family_of Coretta Scott King documented document

“In other words if it causeda break betweenCoretta and Martin Luther King that would diminish his stature…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.237

FBI targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“And plans were even discussed for sabotaging his political campaign in the event he decided to run for national office.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.239

Martin Luther King Jr. member_of Southern Christian Leadership Conference documented document

“An SCLC staff member told a representative of the MFDP…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.251

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document

“An unsigned White House memorandum disclosing Dr King's strategy in connection with a meeting to be attended by President Johnson suggests that there was political use of these FBI reports…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.251

FBI targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“In March 1968 FBI Headquarters granted authority for furnishing to a 'cooperative national news media source' an article 'designed to curtail success of Martin Luther King's fund raising for the poor people's march on Washington…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.261

FBI covered_up Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“In February 1964 a reporter informed the Justice Department that the FBI had offered to "leak information unfavorable to Dr King to the press…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.292

Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“In 1968 Attorney General Ramsey Clark asked Director Hoover if he had "any information as to how facts about Attorney General Kennedy's authorization of the wiretap on Dr King had leaked…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.293

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“They've told you gave you information based on taps or other sources about Martin Luther King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.296

Edgar Hoover spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Edgar Hoover's cessation of the bugging of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.'s hotel rooms after the initiation of a Senate investigation...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.302

FBI targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Martin Luther King Jr was targeted because (amongother things) he might "abandon his supposed`obedienceto `white liberal doctrines (non-violence)and embrace black nationalism.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.12

FBI targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Primary targets listed in this secondletter are... Martin Luther King...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.27

FBI carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“More importantly actions in the Rev Martin Luther King case which cannot by any stretch of the language be called "investiga tive" were not called COINTELPRO but were carried under the investigative caption…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.69

FBI spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The FBI intensifies its investigation of alleged Communist influence in the civil rights movement July-September 1963…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.85

FBI carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The FBI plans its campaign to discredit Dr King December 23 1963…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.85

William Sullivan proposed Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“William Sullivan proposes a plan to promote a new Negro leader January 1964…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.85

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with J. Edgar Hoover documented document

“Dr King and Director Hoover meet December 1 1964…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.86

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“From December 1963 until his death in 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was the target of an intensive campaign by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 'neutralize him as an effective civil rights leader'...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.87

Time-Life relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Shortly afterward Time magazine chose Dr King as the 'Man of the Year…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.89

Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The FBI conducted its investigation of Dr King and the SCLC under an FBI manual provision called COMINFIL…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.90

Martin Luther King Jr. headed Southern Christian Leadership Conference documented document

“In October 1962 the FBI opened its investigation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and of it's president Dr Martin Luther King Jr…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.92

Martin Luther King Jr. relationship_with Adviser A documented document

“The report stated that one of Dr King's advisers hereinafter referred to as 'Adviser A' was a 'member of the Communist Party USA.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.94

Martin Luther King Jr. relationship_with Adviser B documented document

“Within a few months FBI reports were describing another of Dr King's associates hereinafter referred to as 'Adviser B' as a 'member of the National Committee of the Communist Party.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.94

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in Albany, Georgia documented document

“These instructions to the field were issued on the first day of Dr King's trial in which he and seven hundred other civil rights demonstrators were charged in Albany Georgia with parading without a permit…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.94

Martin Luther King Jr. died_in United States documented document

“until Dr King's death in 1968…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.98

Robert F. Kennedy approved Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“Guthman testified that he was told by Kennedy in 1968 that Kennedy had approved wiretap coverage of Dr King's home and of two SCLC offices in October 1963…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.98

FBI spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Intelligence reports submitted by the Bureau to the White House and the Jdtice Department contained considerable intelligence of potential political value to the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.99

Harry Wachtel worked_for Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The implications of this inside knowledge were graphically described by one of Dr King's legal advisers Harry Wachtel…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.99

Burke Marshall relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Dr King were in some sense close associates of mine…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.99

Burke Marshall met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Shortly afterwards Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division told Dr King that the Bureau claimed Adviser A was a communist and advised that they break off relations.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.101

Adviser A relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. alleged document

“In January 1962 Hoover first warned Attorney General Kennedy that Advisor A a member of the Communist Party U.S.A. 'is allegedly a close adviser to the Reverend Martin Luther King.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.101

Adviser A met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“In June 1962 the FBI intercepted a conversation in which Adviser A recommended that Dr King informally use Adviser B as his executive assistant…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.101

Martin Luther King Jr. worked_for Southern Christian Leadership Conference documented document

“Dr King publicly responded on October 30 that 'no person of known Communist affiliation could serve on the staff of the SCLC and denied any knowledge that Adviser B had Communist affiliations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.102

Martin Luther King Jr. member_of Southern Christian Leadership Conference documented document

“strongly urged Dr King that there should be no further connection between Adviser B and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.103

Andrew Young worked_for Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Andrew Young who was present at the meeting with Burke Marshall testified that Marshall had said that the Bureau had informed the Justice Department that there was in fact Communist influence in the civil rights movement…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.103

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Highlander Folk School documented document

“which showed Dr King at a 1957 Labor Day Weekend seminar at the Highland Folk School in Monteagle Tennessee…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.104

J. Edgar Hoover linked_to Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“In the same memorandum Director Hoover brought up the subject of Advisers A and B's alleged Communist affiliations He claimed that the Communist Party had pinned its hopes on Adviser A and that although Adviser B had resigned from the SCLC …”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.105

George C. Wallace linked_to Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“berating officials for 'fawning and pawing over such people as Martin Luther King and his pro-Communist friends and associates.'…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.105

Martin Luther King Jr. paid Adviser B reported document

“But as discovered by a member of the US Congress the public profession was a lie and Adviser B had remained on King's payroll.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.105

Robert F. Kennedy spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“On July 16 1963 ... the Attorney General raised with Courtney Evans the possibility of wiretap coverage of Dr King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.106

Communist Party USA targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“The memorandum stated that 'The history of the Communist Party IT.S.A. is replete with its attempts to exploit influence and recruit the Negro.'…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.114

J. Edgar Hoover proposed Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“On October 7 citing 'possible communist influence in the racial situation, Hoover requested the Attorney General's permission for a wiretap 'on King at his current address or at any future address to which he may move and 'on the SCLC offic…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.121

Robert F. Kennedy funded Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Attorney General Kennedy signed the request on October 10 and on October 21 also approved the FBI request for coverage of the SCLC's Atlanta office.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.121

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary documented document

“Wiretaps were installed on the SCLC's New York office on October 24 1963 and at Dr King's home and the SCLC's Atlanta office on November 8 1963…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.122

Martin Luther King Jr. relationship_with Robert F. Kennedy reported document

“Marshall recalled that Dr King had made a 'commitment to the Attorney General and to the President to 'stop having any communication with Advisers A and B'…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.123

Robert F. Kennedy met_with Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“My recollection is that there had been a number of conversations with King by Burke Marshall and Robert Kennedy…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.124

John F. Kennedy met_with Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“and I think President Kennedy had indicated to King that he ought not to have anything to do with (Adviser A)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.124

Nicholas Katzenbach ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“I received a request from the Bureau to continue a tap on Dr King's personal phone I ordered it discontinued…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.124

Andrew Young worked_for Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Congressman Andrew Young who was one of Dr King's chief aides testified…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.126

Domestic Intelligence Division spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Although apparently no microphones were placed in Dr King's hotel rooms after the November 29 1965 "bug at the Americana Hotel the Domestic Intelligence Division did make one further attempt to install a microphone…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.136

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in Americana Hotel documented document

“Although apparently no microphones were placed in Dr King's hotel rooms after the November 29 1965 "bug at the Americana Hotel…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.136

Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“He remembered that the Attorney General had ordered the monograph withdrawn but did not know if the Attorney General had taken any further steps to reprimand the Bureau.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.139

William C. Sullivan proposed Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Assistant Director William Sullivan proposed that the FBI select a new 'national Negro leader' as Dr King's successor…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.142

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Lyndon B. Johnson reported document

“inasmuch as King is seeking an appointment with President Johnson.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.146

J. Edgar Hoover ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“On December 8 1964 the Director authorized the disclosure of information about Dr King's personal life to an influential member of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) so that he could pass the information along... to prevent the Committee from…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.148

Francis Spellman met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The Pope met with Dr King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.149

J. Edgar Hoover met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The Pope met with Dr King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.149

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The memorandum states that Guthman was told 'there had been no leaks from the FBI concerning Dr Martin Luther King'…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.155

U.S. Department of Justice spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Guthman testified that he recalled the Justice Department had 'suspected that the information had been leaked by the FBI.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.155

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document

“several prominent civil rights figures met with FBI officials to voice their concern and seek assurances from the FBI that the attacks on Dr King would stop…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.161

Martin Luther King Jr. operated_in Albany, Georgia documented document

“notorious Martin Luther King had attempted to capitalize on this matter by claiming that all agents assigned to the Albany Georgia Resident Agency were southern born agents…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.162

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in Bimini documented document

“Before they had an opportunity to release the statement Dr King who was then in Bimini issued the following public reply…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.163

Martin Luther King Jr. relationship_with Coretta Scott King documented document

“Director Hoover wanted one of the King tapes mailed to Coretta King to precipitate their separation…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.164

William Sullivan ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“Sullivan testified that he ordered a 'tight-lipped reliable agent to fly to Tampa Florida to mail a package to Coretta King... The agent testified that he flew to Miami and then called Sullivan who instructed him to address the package to M…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.165

Martin Luther King Jr. relationship_with Ralph Abernathy documented document

“Both Young and Ralph Abernathy who also heard the tape and read the letter interpreted it as inviting Dr King to take his own life.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.166

Harry Wachtel worked_for Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“According to one of Dr King's legal counsels Harry Wachtel several prominent civil rights leaders told Dr King of their concern...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.169

Archibald Carey relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“the meeting was arranged by Dr Archibald Carey a close friend of both DeLoach and Dr King at King's request.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.170

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Cartha DeLoach documented document

“Director Hoover was accompanied by Cartha DeLoach…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.170

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Andrew Young documented document

“Dr King was accompanied by... Andrew Young…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.170

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Ralph Abernathy documented document

“Dr King was accompanied by Ralph Abernathy…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.170

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Walter Fauntroy documented document

“Dr King was accompanied by... Walter Fauntroy…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.170

J. Edgar Hoover relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. alleged document

“In 1970 when the Bureau received a series of inquiries following a series of stories in the press suggesting that Director Hoover had 'blackmailed Dr King at the December 1964 meeting by threatening to 'expose his alleged 'extramarital acti…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.172

James Farmer met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Before the meeting met with Dr King and told him about the allegations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.174

Joseph L. Farmer met_with Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“He stated that he and King had had a lengthy conference last night in New York City…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.175

Archibald J. Carey Jr. met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Dr King had first brought to his attention rumors about Dr King's 'communist sympathies and personal conduct during a weekend visit to Chicago some time in May 1965…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.177

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in Chicago documented document

“He added that King was in Chicago last weekend and stayed in Carey's home…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.177

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with John P. Cody documented document

“In February 1966 Dr King held a press conference following a meeting with the Reverend John P Cody Archbishop of the Chicago Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.178

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in New York City documented document

“Dr King publicly announced his opposition to American involvement in the war in Vietnam in a speech at New York's Riverside Church on April 4 1967…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.179

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with James Hoffa documented document

“In October 1966 the FBI discovered that Dr King planned to meet with Hoffa...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.182

McGeorge Bundy met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Dr King had met with McGeorge Bundy…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.184

FBI proposed Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“On March 25 the Bureau approved a plan to mail an anonymous letter to a civil rights leader in Selma Alabama... hoping that the newspaper might interview the leader about its contents…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.187

Martin Luther King Jr. moved_to Memphis documented document

“During the latter part of March Dr King went to Memphis Tennessee where a strike by Sanitation Workers had erupted into violent riots…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.187

Martin Luther King Jr. worked_for Sanitation Workers documented document

“Martin Luther King Jr. today led a march composed of 5,000 to 6,000 people through the streets of Memphis…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.187

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in Holiday Inn Motel documented document

“Instead King decided the plush Holiday Inn Motel white owned operated and almost exclusively patronized was the place to 'cool it.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.188

Martin Luther King Jr. moved_to Lorraine Motel documented document

“On April 4 Dr King returned to Memphis This time he registered at the Lorraine Hotel…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.188

Ralph Abernathy relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Dr Ralph Abernathy who was with Dr King during his last days told the Committee that he had not been aware of any newspaper articles criticizing Dr King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.188

Andrew Young relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“According to Congressman Andrew Young a personal friend and associate of Dr King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.189

Ralph McGill linked_to Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“particularly when the attacks engendered by the FBI came from people like Ralph McGill…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.190

The New York Times linked_to Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“He sat down and cried at the New York Times editorial about his statement on Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.190

Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“It was expressly directed against such leaders as Martin Luther King Jr....…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.193

Federal Bureau of Investigation covered_up Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Nor is there any indication in the record that the Subcommittee ever learned of the bugging and wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.315

Robert F. Kennedy spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“In October 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy authorized wiretaps on the residence and two of fice telephones of Dr King on the ground of possible Communist infiltration into the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of which Dr King w…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.324

Kennedy Administration spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The "Sugar Lobby wiretaps and microphone bugging during the Kennedy administration serve as one example of the collection and dissemination of essentially political information…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.351

Martin Luther King Jr. worked_for Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party documented document

“the purpose of King's seeing these individuals is to urge them to call the White House directly and put pressure on the White House in behalf of the MFDP.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.354

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party recruited Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“MFDP leaders have asked Reverend King to call Governor Egan of Alaska and Governor Burns of Hawaii in an attempt to enlist their support…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.354

Martin Luther King Jr. met_with Lyndon B. Johnson documented document

“disclosed Martin Luther King's strategy in connection with a meeting to be attended by President Johnson…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.355

CIA spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“or why the mail coming to or from such individuals as Arthur Burns Bella Abzug Jay Rockefeller Martin Luther King Jr. Mrs Martin Luther King Jr. Richard Nixon himself as well as such Senators as Hubert Humphrey Edward Kennedy even the Chair…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.57

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. alleged document

“I'm talking about the allegations and the charges that the FBI kept surveillance on Robert Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy and Martin Luther King and a number of other political figures…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.119

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“We will demonstrate that in the case of a particular person in this case Martin Luther King the Bureau continued for 7 years to have…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.15

FBI targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“the Bureau at one point had a plan to select a leader who they thought ought to lead the blacks in this country and at the same time to depose Martin Luther King against whom they ran their most sustained and toughest program of any that we…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.17

FBI spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“the plans of Dr King... were also communicated... This was accomplished really through a complete infiltration of these groups…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.30

Martin Luther King Jr. operated_in Los Angeles documented document

“he is out in Los Angeles on a political convention…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.31

Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“Prevent the rise of the `messiah who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist group... Martin Luther King * * * aspires to this position…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.34

FBI spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“To this end the FBI set about a path of authorizing some 16 wire taps against Dr King microphone bugs if you will in addition to wiretaps which were also planted…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.41

Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“the extraordinary thing is to look at the timing of the effort the Bureau made to discredit and destroy Dr King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.42

Time-Life relationship_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“He was attacked after Time magazine named him as the Man of the Year…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.42

Pope Paul VI met_with Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“And when the Pope despite that effort did meet with Dr King the FBI documents record the adverb "astounding.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.42

Martin Luther King Jr. headed Federal Bureau of Investigation documented document

“the FBI is not only presumed to know an awful lot about the movement which Dr King headed…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.43

FBI attempted_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. reported document

“It included an attempt to send him a letter prior to the time he received the Nobel Peace Prize which Dr Martin Luther King and close associates interpreted to mean a suggestion that King should attempt suicide…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.53

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in Memphis documented document

“Martin Luther King has urged Negroes in Memphis Tenn. to boycott white merchants in order to force compliancewith Negro demands in the sanitation workers strike in Memphis…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.56

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in Holiday Inn Motel documented document

“King chose to hide out at the white-owned and operated Holiday Inn Motel…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.56

Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in Lorraine Motel reported document

“The FBI also asserts that Martin Luther King Jr had already moved into the Lorraine Hotel prior to April 3 1968…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.57

Martin Luther King Jr. died_in Lorraine Motel documented document

“And that was where he was killed…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.57

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“The caption on it is Counterintelligence Program Black Nationalists Hate Groups Racial Intelligence Martin Luther King…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.56

FBI targeted_for_regime_change Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“So that for all practical purposes Dr King was treated as though he were one of them [foreign enemies/spies].…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.59

J. Edgar Hoover spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. documented document

“It was 3 months after this memorandum that the December conference was convened and it was 1 month after that in January of 1964 that the first microphone was installed…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.67

Martin Luther King Jr. died_in Tennessee documented

“That happened on April 3rd. He was assassinated on April 4th. So that kind of gives you the background for what was going on. Ironically enough, two weeks later, after his assassination, the city agreed to the unionization, gave them a smal…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 4:23

Martin Luther King Jr. operated_in New York City documented

“as a successor, if you will, to Mahatma Gandhi in terms of a movement for social change through civil disobedience. So that's where he was moving. Then in 1967, on April 4th, one year to the day before he was killed, he delivered the moment…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 11:42

Martin Luther King Jr. carried_out_attack Tennessee documented

“a man to demand dignity and respect for the job their demands specifically was for recognition of a union a higher wage and to repair the equipment that had caused the accident on march 28 1968 mlk led a march of about 6 000 people and it t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 3:18

Martin Luther King Jr. operated_in Tennessee documented

“a disaster the police under the mayor was unleashed on the peaceful marchers they didn't fight back it resulted in at least one death numerous injuries and multiple arrests and they put the city under a curfew king returned on april 3rd to …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 3:51

Martin Luther King Jr. operated_in Tennessee documented

“How can we go on behalf of the broad national interest? These ones need us now. Let's start with the poor people campaign here, which is what he did. So he came to Memphis and he was here on the 17th and 18th of March. And he spoke and then…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 17:55

Martin Luther King Jr. operated_in Tennessee documented

“that it was broken up deliberately, that he was discredited because of that, and he had to then return. So he did plan to come back. There was opposition within his own organization, but he said, no, we're going to do this and we're going t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 18:23

Sam Evans covered_up Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“and ask him to get a crew out there to cut all of those bushes down where the assassin took the actual shot from. Now, normally, what one does to a crime scene, at least for quite a while, is to rope it off and keep people out of it so you …”

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 48:31

Martin Luther King Jr. carried_out_attack Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike host_asserted

“The city of Memphis, Tennessee was in the middle of a sanitation workers strike. They were striking for better wages, safer working conditions, and the recognition of an actual union. You know, all of the things that the Democrats say they'…”

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 0:27

Martin Luther King Jr. carried_out_attack Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 4:04

Martin Luther King Jr. targeted_for_regime_change Vietnam War host_asserted

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 11:23

Frank Liberto ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted

“One called a witness by the defense, Ms. Levada Addison, who had a conversation with Mr. Liberto. In her cafe, when Liberto leaned over the table at a time when the select committee hearings were on, apparently something came on the televis…”

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 19:29

111th Military Intelligence Group spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“were here. They were here in Memphis. They had Martin Luther King under surveillance. That was open, quote, open surveillance, eye-to-eye surveillance. They had him under surveillance. Eli Arkins of the Memphis Police Department Intelligenc…”

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 40:01

Army Security Agency spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“Martin Luther King's suite bugged every room of it, including the balcony. If he wanted to speak privately and went out on the back balcony, they could pick it up on a relay from the roof. That covert, that type of covert surveillance was c…”

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 40:58

Martin Luther King Jr. relationship_with Robert F. Kennedy caller_asserted

“And then, you know, what's also never mentioned is that MLK was backing the 1968 RFK campaign. Yes, he was. Now, you have the so-called leftover here claiming to be for the working class. And you would think that given the demographics of t…”

▶ Operation Gladio and the 1968 Election PART 2 @ 1:28:00

Martin Luther King Jr. supported Robert F. Kennedy host_asserted

“Kudos to Dr. Yao. But I think it's essential to point out that the Poor People's Campaign was suggested by New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy to MLK. And there's no question MLK was backing the 1968 RFK campaign. And you've heard me a billi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 1:18:28

James Earl Ray ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“So he has not attempted to come forward at all and tell his side of the story to defend himself. As we move into the next area, we're concerned now about a broader conspiracy. On one hand, the broader conspiracy goes beyond a shooter in the…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 37:04

111th Military Intelligence Group spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“They had Martin Luther King under surveillance. That was open, quote, open surveillance, eye-to-eye surveillance. They had him under surveillance. Eli Arkins of the Memphis Police Department Intelligence Bureau, Intelligence Division, said …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 40:24

Carlos Marcello trafficked Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“has this relationship and awareness of Marcelo and his activities. Carlos Marcelo had been a mob kingpin, was the mob leader in this part of the country for a long, long time. So any contact, any mob contract on Martin Luther King's life wo…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 38:03

CIA assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“the three major league CIA domestic assassinations, JFK, MLK, and RFK, as to be really, you know, to really illustrate that point in profound detail. Like one of the things that irks me sort of is that a lot of people think, oh, I know that…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 9 @ 1:29:23

Memphis Police Department Intelligence Bureau carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 3:51

Army Security Agency spied_on Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“if he wanted to speak privately and went out on the back balcony, they could pick it up on a relay from the roof. That covert, that type of covert surveillance was carried out by another agency, which usually was the Army Security Agency. B…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 41:23

Walter Reuther did_business_with Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“whose program, the Model Studies program, Antonia Chase, who's a dean that teaches where Arif Bonesman is the professor. A little bit more on Mr. Reuther. He actually marched with MLK in Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery, and Jackson. And he's …”

▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 1:06:53

Andrew Young worked_with Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“and colorful history. So he's best known as a former Atlanta mayor. And what you talked about with BCCI paying him, they were paying him about $50,000 annually to run to his company, Andrew Young Associates, which is ostensibly an internati…”

▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 2 @ 43:22

COINTELPRO targeted Martin Luther King Jr. documented

“The FBI included among the program's many target organizations, such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Vietnam War Movement, and individuals like Martin Luther King Jr., as well as local, state, and federal elected offici…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 9B @ 40:17

The Deep State Assassination of MLK exposed Martin Luther King Jr. book_quoted

“an amazing new book called the deep state assassination of martin luther king which raises a lot of um reasons why it happened in memphis and you know that the governor of tennessee had been he was of all the southern governors closest to l…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 9 @ 1:31:56

Lyndon B. Johnson covered_up Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“Floor manager in 1960 at Los Angeles was the governor of Tennessee. And boy, did LBJ and CIA work very well with that particular state government to manipulate the MLK trial and manipulate and conclude the framing of James Earl Ray for not …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 1:18:13

Martin Luther King Jr. founded Protestant Reformation documented

“I create a screw press from wine and oil for even pressure and then a hand mold for efficient tight production. And I know about what half of that means. But that was Gutenberg. He changed the world. Directly leads to the Protestant Reforma…”

▶ The Shadow State 66 The Rise & Fall of the Dutch Empire @ 18:28

Martin Luther King Jr. died_in Memphis book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 9 @ 1:31:56

Martin Luther King Jr. targeted_for_regime_change Vietnam War host_asserted

“When Martin Luther King opposed the war, when he rallied people to oppose the war, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country. This was about money. When he threatened to bring the war to …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 13:36

Claude Sitton ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“who went down there to turn himself in. You think I did this. I'm prepared to turn myself in. The guy said, go away. You've never been a suspect. Isn't that amazing? You heard Earl Codwell say that he was sent to Memphis by his national edi…”

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 58:13

Raoul ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“that the bundle, the murder weapon, the rifle in evidence, was dropped minutes before the actual shooting. Now we have Raul, this shadowy figure who the defendant has mentioned and who James Earl Ray has talked about right from the beginnin…”

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 33:52

James McCall carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“to get rid of the murder weapon, and he did. McCraw, being a close friend of Jowers, a confidant of Jowers, took the actual murder weapon and threw it off the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge. So it is laying at the bottom of the Mississippi River f…”

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 32:25

Martin Luther King Jr. succeeded Mahatma Gandhi host_asserted

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 11:23

Martin Luther King Jr. succeeded Mahatma Gandhi host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 11:42

Operation Gladio assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. guest_asserted

“What about those? Were those Gladio Ops as well? All of them.…”

▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 1:33:50

James Jowers ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. guest_asserted

“right in front of the police burning rubber he went with no interference from the police at all all of these things all of these events i submit to you profoundly are strong evidence of the existence of a conspiracy just at the local level …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 27:26

Frank Liberto ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. guest_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner MLK Conspiracy Trial wGladio Glasses @ 19:48

Earl Clark carried_out_attack Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“which he did and the money and eventually a rifle to hold. And he was told about the planning sessions in his cafe. And he was told about a rifle from the shooter, taking the rifle from the shooter, one that was still smoking. He said, take…”

▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 1:05:40

Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“He decides he's not running for reelection. So, less than a week later, Martin Luther King is killed. Now, you have to understand that in 1968, race was a big deal. And the Martin Luther King aftermath would look like what we went through i…”

▶ Operation Gladio and the 1968 Election PART 1 @ 16:20

Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted

“as far as the summer of 2020 after George Floyd. It was every large city on fire, riots everywhere. And in the aftermath, you begin to see, and this is years later, you begin to see that there was an underlying agitation going on, like some…”

▶ Operation Gladio - 1968 parallels_ Assassins, political theater, etc @ 17:53

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1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 4:00 The March 12th New Hampshire primary, where LBJ is the incumbent, barely squeaks it out over McCarthy. That vulnerability is like blood in the water, and RFK jumps in a few days later. As we're going to see, there's other extenuating circum…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 6:02 that very night that he wins, he's murdered. He's assassinated. So that's the second assassination. You have MLK and then you have RFK. And at the beginning of August, Nixon wraps up the nomination for the Republican side. And at the end of…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 1:27:02 Basically, I do tons of reading on Cold War history. I'm like, oh, fascinating. I feel like that was when the projector was made and they got us watching films, so to speak. So what I learned, what I was surprised that I had not heard this …

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 1:27:33 during which MLK was assassinated. And I'm like, wait, why am I like 57 years old? I've been reading Cold War history all the time. I never heard this before. Calcuria over here. And then, you know, what's also never mentioned is that MLK w…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 1:28:59 rfk campaign he has his first plane crash in october 1968 his second one is the one that in which he dies he survived the first one is in 1970 so basically what we're looking at and and the united wait a minute rfk was assassinated yes i kn…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 1:29:28 And MLK was assassinated also during the RFK campaign, April 4th, 68. Right. So Walter Reuther, his first plane crash was before. Oh, you're talking about the UAW guy. Right. And this is a big, this is really a big guy, but a big deal guy. …

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 1:31:16 Well, I have not read very much on that, but there's no question in my mind that CIA would be up in that as well. I guess what I'm saying is these are not necessarily contradictory informations. It doesn't necessarily mean that UAW Presiden…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 1:32:14 RFK and MLK with the poor people's campaign that RFK had suggested, you know, that campaign is ending in three assassinations, the last in two plane crashes. And our so-called emphasis, in my opinion, so-called left never says a word about …

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 1:33:18 That's an answer I did not expect, I will admit that. Again, guys, you're getting more than you bargained for, I will say that. That's how impressed I am with the Colonel here. But I'm not saying that to be fanboyish, I'm just saying. But, …

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 1:33:50 and Malcolm X and RFK. What about those? Were those Gladio Ops as well? All of them. And why those people that I just named and probably some others I haven't? So RFK was a very interesting, and I had not done a lot of research into it, but…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 1:36:03 And we already know that Martin Luther King was spied on. He was a real threat because Martin Luther King and RFK, quite frankly, was a very uniting force. They brought whites and blacks together. They were lifting up the poor regardless of…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 1:37:31 OK, that MLK was supporting that 1968 RFK campaign and also that in MLK was working on the Poor People's Campaign of 1968. It is never, ever mentioned that RFK suggested to MLK the Poor People's Campaign of 1968. And it's just like, that's …

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 1:37:59 And they were both working together. And our media and our, you know, completely tamed academia has just completely erased that history of their social history. They were working together so that we don't really see that similarity when bot…